(31 quotes found)
“Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.”
Chanakya
“The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace”
John Owen
“True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.”
William Shakespeare
“The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.”
William Blackstone
“The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings; one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath; one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him; and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.”
“The biggest attraction in Britain is Britain - the whole package. Our heritage is not just a collection of ornaments scattered across the country, it is Britain itself and makes us gloriously distinguishable from any other country.”
Bill Bryson
“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion”
John Stuart Mill
“My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It's wiped. We lost it all, ... They had boats up in trees like Christmas ornaments. It's like a different world.”
Dan Parker
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